From the garden experts at Better Homes and Gardens® comes this authoritative guide to home landscaping. This comprehensive resource offers over 320 pages packed with 800 full-color photographs, step-by-step planting and building instructions, and much more. It covers every aspect of home landscaping, from design principles and construction projects to plant selection and care. Learn how to: - Design and create landscapes - Build paths, ponds, walls decks, and watering systems - Select, plant and care for flowers, trees, shrubs, and more The only landscaping reference you’ll ever need!
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"Complete Home Landscaping is the first home landscaping book I have encountered that actually justifies the term "complete" in its title! The step-by-step processes, are clear, and the photography examples inspirational. Every important landscaping procedure is covered in a concise, well-organized manner that is not intimidating."
-Derek Fell, author, Secrets of Monet's Garden and 50 other garden books.
-Derek Fell, author, Secrets of Monet's Garden and 50 other garden books.
"...I highly recommend 'Complete Home Landscaping'... Whatever questions you have about landscaping, whether it is design, planning, installation, or planting, this marvelous book has the answer."
Connie Krochmal, The Washington News
November 7, 2001
Connie Krochmal, The Washington News
November 7, 2001
"Fortunately for gardeners, the search is over. Creative Homeowner... comes to the rescue yet again with the introduction of their title, Complete Home Landscaping."
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This biggest book in CH history is truly comprehensive. It covers the full spectrum of home landscaping considerations, from design principles to construction projects and from plant selection to plant care. The book consists of three parts: I. Designing explains how to assess your needs and your site and how to develop designs and install them with confidence. II. Hardscape shows how to design, build, and install ponds, paths, steps, walls, fences, paving, and sprinkler systems. III. Plants tells how to select, plant, and care for flowers, trees, shrubs, ground covers, lawns, vegetables, and herbs-with listings of plants suited to each reader's climate and growing conditions.
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Catriona Tudor Erler is an internationally recognized garden writer, photographer, and speaker. She is the author of seven garden books as well as numerous articles for publications such as Architectural Digest and Southern Accents. Her photographs have been published in books, magazines, and newspapers in both the United States and Great Britain. She also specializes in adapting British gardening books for American audiences, editing them to reflect the American vernacular, climate zones, and plant selections. Catriona gardens with her husband and twin sons in Vienna, Virginia. A former resident of San Diego, California, she has extensive gardening experience on both coasts of the United States, including growing in tropical and subtropical regions.
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General landscaping ideas for a neophyte,
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I was looking for a comprehensive book that included general landscaping concepts/ideas, walkways and hardscaping ideas, plant information, planting technique, deck/patio elements....pretty much everything including a good balance between great photographs and substantive content. I got it with this book!
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Whether you are a professional landscaper or a weekend gardener, this book provides a multitude of information in understandable terms and concepts. From plant selection, starting a new lawn or re-doing an existing one, to building pathways, irrigation systems, and rockeries, this book has it all. The authors have included just about everything you may ask about your yard or garden with helpful directions, options, and instructions. All gardeners should have this resource on their bookshelf. It will be used -and often!
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Your home landscape offers the opportunity to express yourself as though you were a landscape painter, by creating something beautiful from a "blank canvas." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
plant resistant cultivars, designing your landscape, new feeder roots, semiripe cuttings, pool decking, rigid liners, wooden edging, tropical water lilies, succession planting, plastic edging, heirloom vegetables, thatch buildup, ornamental grasses, raised pool, managing pests, marginal plants, garden accents, aged manure, scratch coat, annual rye, floating row, landscape fabric, creeping juniper Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Difficulty Level, North America, Laying the Groundwork, New England, Rosalind Creasy, Cooperative Extension Service, Courtesy of Malibu Lights, San Diego, Redecorating the Established Landscape, Rosemary Verey, The Lawn Institute New!
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Your home landscape offers the opportunity to express yourself as though you were a landscape painter, by creating something beautiful from a "blank canvas." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
plant resistant cultivars, designing your landscape, new feeder roots, semiripe cuttings, pool decking, rigid liners, wooden edging, tropical water lilies, succession planting, plastic edging, heirloom vegetables, thatch buildup, ornamental grasses, raised pool, managing pests, marginal plants, garden accents, aged manure, scratch coat, annual rye, floating row, landscape fabric, creeping juniper Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Difficulty Level, North America, Laying the Groundwork, New England, Rosalind Creasy, Cooperative Extension Service, Courtesy of Malibu Lights, San Diego, Redecorating the Established Landscape, Rosemary Verey, The Lawn Institute New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Trees and Shrubs (Questions and Answers) by Lois Hole on page 200
- Gertrude Jekyll's Color Schemes for the Flower Garden by Gertrude Jekyll on page 244
- Garden Design by Sylvia Crowe on page 36
- All My Edens: a Gardener's Memoir by Pat Welsh on page 32
- Theme Gardens: Revised Edition by Barbara Damrosch on page 93
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